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Netcraft says they also have FrontPage(!), SSL, Apache, and Linux(no !). Must be a standard hosting package from Interland.

Did you know you can earn up to $2,000 in CASH for referrals at Interland?

I recently moved from ServerMatrix's parent company, The Planet, because of their poor customer service and new billing software, which refused to take my credit card. Interland didn't have a problem with my card, and customer service has been great so far. They have "self-managed" servers for $69/mo, with 500 GB of transfer, running RH9. Cologuys was mentioned in a previous post for a colo solution, and I used to work for another company that had a cage in the same datacenter, Colo4Dallas, which isn't a bad site, but one of the main bandwidth providers for Colo4 is Cogent, which has had many complaints about the network reliability. Besides, if you're coloing a large number of machines, you'd probably be better off going straight to Colo4. Both The Planet and Colo4 are right off Stemmons Freeway (I-35) in Dallas, TX, as is the Infomart (warning, flash heavy site!), where The Planet started before they bought the old Inflow datacenter. They helpfully provide a listing of thier tenants, so you can possibly find a good deal going through the list.

I would strongly recommend against any of the DTI owned companies (affordablecolo.com, affordabledomain.net, affordableservers.net, or dtihosting.com), as I have worked with them in the past and witnessed the unplugging of live servers from power strips so they could be rearranged in a rack for the amusement of the one senior technician they had - the 21 year old owner. Webhostingtalk.com has many, many, stories from former customers of DTI - search for cbaker17, the owner's handle, to find them quickly. For that matter, I'd recommend researching any company you're looking into on WHT.

What's amazing is that this dude in Bum#@!$ Egypt can get nice service like that and, ta-da, run a web site

Nope, the web site is hosted by Interland in Atlanta GA. He is paying no less than $16.95/mo (their cheapest plan).

where most people in the US have to beg their ISP or Tripod or some other advert hole for 10 big megs of space.

Only if they spend more time whining than looking for an alternative. Check out Nearly Free Speech. $1/1GB transferred, no monthly payment, no setup fees. For a personal site you can just put a few bucks in your account and they will last virtually forever. Even a slashdotting shouldn't hurt too much - other providers charge much more than that per GB if you exceed your monthly limit.

Not Register.com, Verisign/NetSol. The domains were parked at InterLand.

Granted, I knew all that before I read this article, but hey, the securityfocus article that was linked had all this information, would have been 4 seconds of Journalistic Research.

I'm too ornery in the morning. In any case, really big mass-defacement, really easily accomplished.

According to the Security Focus article the affected parking servers had been outsourced to Interland. Not really surprising, since Interland has left their servers vulnerable to various vulnerabilities for months at times.

I experience a similar phenomenon at the non-profit I work at. There is no Web department. Nor even a real Web budget. Our 'Web Master' is in the Communications Department. I'm the 'Web Advocate' in our Advocacy Department. Our Publications Director does his own coding. Our IT Director has a consultant that tweaks our server box - which is now in-house since our previous host merged and lost what little brain power they had left. There is no central managing authority or oversight and instead we have an 'IT Committee' that meets every other week to try and do the job of a Web Director. The budget is all ad-hoc and barely gets us through. We also manage content in six languages, relying mainly on volunteers and interns. I argue for a Web Department and a budget, but org. management just doesn't want to hear it. Needless to say there is nothing resembling a strategy or plan. It's a constant battle just to get through the week.

If I wrote the rules, I would give the original owner of the domain name a reasonable fixed period of time, say, 90 days, to renew. After that, the name would go back up for grabs. Actually, that's probably more than enough time for the owner to cough up more dough.

Why not release them immediately? It's one thing for someone other than Joe Domain to snap up www.joedomainname.com immediately after Joe Domain lets his renewal slip. But a couple of months ago we had an incident...we host most of our sites with a certain hosting company who shall remain nameless. One client's domain name up and ceased to work one day. The client had paid us, we had paid the nameless hosting company...but the nameless hosting company had forgotten to pay NetSol, and this client had competitors who were dying to get their grubby little paws on his domain name. If that name had been released into the wild again right after it expired, there could have been a hell of a mess for us to clean up. So a reasonable delay, then, is good. Holding a domain name for a year or more is ridiculous. If Joe Domain hasn't renewed his name by then, NetSol oughta realize that he probably never will.

I think it's important to research web hosting provider's before you pick one. Make sure they have a good reputation.
I chose Interland for my site after reading that they won Editor's Choice in PC Magazine's review of web hosting providers. Interland will host you on either Linux or NT, whichever you prefer. They allow cgi-bin scripts, database access, and other "extra" stuff you sometimes don't get with the other guys.
I've been very pleased.